According to Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Bao, General Director of VTC, in 2015, the gaming industry had 7,000 employees, but by 2021, it had increased to 25,000. According to statistics, in 2021, Vietnam needs 450,000 IT employees. However, the total number of programmers in Vietnam (as of the first quarter of 2021) is 430,000, which means that 20,000 programmer positions will not be filled in the near future.

Human resources for the gaming industry are still lacking.

This shortage stems from the gap between programmers’ skills and business requirements. Specifically, currently only about 16,500 students (accounting for nearly 30%) of the total 55,000 students majoring in information technology meet the skills and requirements of businesses.

Social prejudices about the gaming industry have made it even more difficult to develop human resources for the gaming industry. The IT workforce is trained but not specialized in the gaming industry, leading to the lack of accurate data for human resources working in the gaming industry.

The inclusion of games as a major in university training has received much support.

Therefore, speaking at the recent GameVerse 2023 event, Mr. Le Quang Tu Do, Director of the Department of Radio, Television and Electronic Information ( Ministry of Information and Communications ) said that in order to train regular human resources for the game industry, the Ministry of Information and Communications and the Academy of Posts and Telecommunications will propose to the Ministry of Education and Training to open a new major specializing in training for the game industry.

Mr. Le Quang Tu Do 's statement received the agreement of many people on social networks, especially when it was posted on the Government Information Facebook page.

Accordingly, user Dieu Thuyen said that, looking at developed countries like Korea and the US to learn, the game industry has a lot of potential for training such as: game programming, graphic design for games, game design (game script writing), ... these are professions that in Vietnam there is no school that provides formal training while the demand for human resources is increasing.

The person with the nickname Sola Lee also commented that this decision of the Ministry of Information and Communications is very important, with official recognition, because some Vietnamese universities also introduced the game industry into their curriculum 8-10 years ago, but had to borrow the IT industry code because the game industry itself does not have its own industry code.

A person with the nickname Tien Luat said that by bringing games into training, it shows that state policies are increasingly innovative and open, closely grasping real conditions with the world environment.

eSport needs to be properly trained in the future.

Notably, many comments are interested in training in electronic sports (eSport), opinions all agree that, currently, eSport games are developing strongly in the world, there are many professional players and teams with very high income from salaries, image copyrights, to prize values up to millions of USD.

eSport has also been included in official sports tournaments such as the recent 31st Sea Games and the upcoming 32nd Sea Games. Therefore, this is a field that needs to be trained systematically and in the future will contribute to the country's sports industry, as well as the development of the digital economy.

According to Vietnamnet